Parrot in the Oven

Mi vida

by Victor Martinez

On Sale: 12/28/2004

Parrot in the Oven

Mi vida

by Victor Martinez

illustrated by Steve Scott

On Sale: 12/28/2004

Format:

National Book Award

Pura Belpré Award

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book

Publishers Weekly Best Book

About the Book

Dad believed people were like money. You could be a thousand-dollar person or a hundred-dollar person -- even a ten-, five-, or one-dollar person. Below that, everybody was just nickels and dimes. To my dad, we were pennies.

Fourteen-year-old Manny Hernandez wants to be more than just a penny. He wants to be a vato firme, the kind of guy people respect. But that′s not easy when your father is abusive, your brother can′t hold a job, and your mother scrubs the house as if she can wash her troubles away.

In Manny′s neighborhood, the way to get respect is to be in a gang. But Manny′s not sure that joining a gang is the solution. Because, after all, it′s his life -- and he wants to be the one to decide what happens to it.

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780064471862
  • ISBN 10: 0064471861
  • Imprint: HarperCollins Espanol
  • On Sale: 12/28/2004
  • Pages: 240
  • List Price:13.50 CAD
  • BISAC1 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino
  • BISAC2 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / General (see also headings under Family)
  • BISAC3 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Peer Pressure
  • BISAC4 : YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Classics

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